Reflections on the Sunday Readings for the Year of Matthew.

It is my hope that these reflections will help people of faith to listen to the word of the Lord, as the Church puts it before us in the Sunday readings for cycle A of the liturgical year. They come from my own efforts to listen prayerfully to the word of the Lord in the circumstances of my own life as a disciple of the Lord and a priest in a Dublin parish. Everyone who takes up this book could write a different set of reflections based on their own personal listening to the Lord’s word. As the Syrian Saint Ephrem, the renowned theologian-poet from the fourth century, wrote, ‘God has hidden in his word all kinds of treasures, so that each one of us, wherever we meditate, may be enriched by it. His utterance is a tree of life, which offers you blessed fruit from every side’.

Author: Fr Martin Hogan